H.P. Mansfield – Before the Deluge – Class 2 – In the Garden of Eden

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This is Idyllwild 1982, Second
period Class 2.

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Our teachers, Brother HP
Mansfield, his general subject

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before the Deluge, is titled for
Today in the Garden of Eden.

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My dear brethren and citizens in
Christ Jesus, let us first of

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all summarise what we attempted
to put before you yesterday.

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We pointed out that we believe
that the world is facing

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insoluble problems.
These problems inevitably will

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lead to Armageddon.
We also pointed out that the

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environment of today is
deteriorating even morally, and

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that we too became become
victims of our environment.

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We are living in times that are
comparable to those of the days

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of Noah and it’s wise for us to
recognise that fact and make due

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preparation to meet it.
The Lord Jesus Christ in the

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21st chapter of Luke and at
verse 25, he says they would be

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upon the earth.
This stress of nations with

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perplexity and the word
perplexity in its Greek form

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means without a way of escape,
insoluble problems that the

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world will not be able to solve.
The problems facing America

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today are beyond the ability of
Mr. Reagan to resolve them.

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He cannot control over 200
million people.

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It’s beyond the ability of man
to do it.

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The only problem is that man
doesn’t recognize that it is

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beyond his ability to do it.
In Australia we’ve only got

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15,000,000 people in about the
same size area of land as the

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United States.
But even there Mr. Fraser

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doesn’t know how to control the
people.

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But of course, Australians are
more difficult, I suppose, to

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control.
Believe that as it may, there we

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have the situation that’s
without a way of escape and it

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matters not what man it is or
combination of men.

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They’re never going to extricate
themselves from the problems

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that face them today.
And inevitably and dramatically

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and drastically, the world will
drift on to worse conditions

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leading to the flood, Not a
flood of water, but a flood of

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destruction at the coming of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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Now that’s all very interesting,
but it imposes a responsibility

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upon us to do something about
that.

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And what we can do, the Lord
Himself pointed out in that same

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chapter, verse 34, He says take
heed to yourselves how this

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applies to us personally, not to
anyone else to ourselves.

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Take heed to yourselves that’s
at any time your hearts be

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overcharged with surpassing and
drunkenness and the cares of

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this life.
And so that day come upon you

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unawares.
Now to be overcharged is to over

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eat.
And when a person over eats, he

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becomes dull and drowsy and not
vigilant, not awake, he tends to

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fall asleep.
Now says the Lord Jesus Christ,

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take heed to yourselves less
than any time you overeat with

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the Serpentine and drunkenness
and the cares of this life.

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So you see, you can overeat of
the pleasures and cares of this

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life, and this is an age when
you have cares and pleasures

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clouding upon one that’s never
before in our time.

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And we need to exercise extreme
care lest that day come upon you

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unawares.
So that the cares of this life

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creep upon us to such an extent
that we really haven’t got

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sufficient time to look after
our eternal destiny.

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And we hope that Almighty God
that Jesus Christ his Son in the

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mercy that they exhibit will
make good the deficiencies of us

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this time.
But you see, there is the

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challenge upon us.
And he says for as a snare away

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mouth readers, that as a falling
trap, as a snare shall it come

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on all of them that dwell on the
face of the whole earth.

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And brethren and sisters that’s
facing the world today, even as

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this is the time of trouble such
as never was, that snare is

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going to catch them.
And they’re going to be unaware

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of it until it’s there and it
clamps down upon them.

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They’re going to be caught in
that trap.

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The world about us and Jesus
Christ warns that we too can be

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brought into such a frame of
mind as that that because our

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minds are so centered upon the
business and pleasure of life

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that we fail to exercise that
vigilance in our own conduct

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that will ensure for us that we
will escape that snare.

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Let us ever place before our
minds the possibility of the end

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of Jesus Christ says it here.
We might be caught up in the

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snare that’s going to ensnare
all them that dwell on the face

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of the whole earth.
What are we to do?

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He tells us in verse 36.
He says keep awake, be vigilant.

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Watch ye therefore, and pray
always that she may be accounted

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worthy to escape all these
things that shall come to pass,

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and to stand before the Son of
Man, that is, to stand approved.

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And we read.
A little cameo in verse 37 and

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38 of the whole purpose of Jesus
Christ.

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And in the daytime he was
teaching in the temple and at

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night he went out on a bed in
the mount of that is called the

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Mount of Olives.
So he was teaching in the temple

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when he ascended.
And of course when he finished

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his teaching, in a literal
sense, he ascended into heaven

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and all the people came early in
the morning to hear him in the

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temple for to hear him.
And of course, in an anti

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typical sense, that’s going to
happen in the morning of a new

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day when the temple isn’t going
established.

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Then the people will come again
to hear him at that time.

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Now you see here we have the the
the problems that are facing us

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today as we live in days that
are comparable with Noah.

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And we must remind ourselves
that it is not sufficient that

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we realise that we are living at
the time of the end.

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That’s not sufficient.
We must do something about it.

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And what we must do about it
applies to ourselves.

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Take heed to yourself and as to
the extent that we’ve taken to

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ourselves the word of God and
strengthen ourselves in the

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Scriptures that we will prepare
for that time.

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It’s not enough for us to say,
look, we let me get the top of

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the end.
We’ve got to be vigilant.

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We’ve got to be that.
We must put into ourselves that

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motivation that will enable us
to do that effectively before

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our God.
That comes from that book alone.

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To the extent that we feed upon
that book, to the extent that we

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study it in depth, to the extent
that we leave a Bible school and

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open that book in our home, we
get down to help us, Israel and

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Eureka, and start to study those
books objectively with the

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objective that we might put that
into our mind so that it might

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be reflected in our life.
To that extent we are carrying

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out the things of Jesus Christ.
You know, years ago, many, many

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years ago too, too long ago, we
commenced what we call the Elpis

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Israel classes back in the
Adelaide area.

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And in those Elpis Israel
classes we had a little

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objective and the objective was
a threefold one.

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We were to strengthen ourselves
personally.

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So we did it through the study
of the Word, with the help of

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Brother Thomas.
Secondly, we were to become a

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key, a set of strengths in the
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And thirdly, we were to transmit
that knowledge in the

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proclamation of it in the world
outside.

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And that was the order in which
we try to carry it out, first in

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ourselves, then to the ecclesia,
then to the world outside.

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And I believe that we need
something like that even now, at

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this crucial time in which we’re
living.

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There’s a need to maintain
standards in doctrine and in

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practice and in the work of the
truth, that when the Lord Jesus

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Christ returns, we might be
found ready and waiting for him.

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Now our proposition is that the
events leading up to the flood

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foreshadow the events that are
taking place in the earth at

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this time.
We read one or two passages of

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Scripture to remind us of that,
for example in Romans chapter 15

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and verse 4.
And we read there that

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whatsoever things were written
at four time were written for

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our learning, that we through
patience and comfort of the

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Scriptures might have hope.
They were written for our

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learning all these things, all
the events leading up to the

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flood, as well as other things
in the Old Testament Scriptures

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where we’re written for our
learning, that we, through

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patient and comfort of the
Scriptures might have hope.

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In the First Corinthians chapter
10 and at verses 11 and 12, the

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apostle Paul says this about
these things that are therein

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recorded.
These things happen unto them as

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in circles or types, and they
are written for our admonition.

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Upon whom the ends of the world
come.

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Wherefore let him that thinketh
his standeth take heed, lest he

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fall.
So these things were written as

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types.
Again we turn to the 4th chapter

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of Galatians.
And you know, in these words

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that I’m going to cite for you,
I think we have a key to the

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unfolding of the book of
Genesis.

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So in Galatians chapter 4 and
verse 23, the apostle Paul says,

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well, verse 21, he says, tell me
ye the desire to be under the

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law.
Do you hear the law?

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Ford is written that Abraham had
two sons, the one by a bond

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maid, the other by a free woman.
But he who was of the bondwoman

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was born after the flesh, but he
of the free woman was by

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promise.
Now that’s a historical fact.

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It’s recorded in the book of
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We know all about the birth of
Isaac and the birth of Ishmael,

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the sons of Abraham.
We know the circumstances of it

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all.
We’re invited to study it.

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That Ishmael was the son of
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Sarah.
They are plain historical

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details they recorded there.
Now Paul goes on to tell us why

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they are recorded in such
detail, because he’s there’s in

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verse 24, which things are an
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These are two covenants.
Though Paul is saying when you

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read the book of Genesis, when
you read about Ishmael and you

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read about Isaac, remember these
are allegorical, they’re

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historical.
Don’t get me wrong there,

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they’re completely historical.
All the book of Genesis is

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historical and literal.
But they also have an

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allegorical significance.
And in that allegorical

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significance, in the parables
thus expressed in living

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characters, there is set forth
before us the purpose of

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Almighty God and also what He
expects of us.

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The book of Genesis is the key
bed is the seed bed of the

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Bible.
The rest of the Bible is merely

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an extension of Genesis.
In Genesis you have every other

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part of the Bible, including the
prophecies of Daniel and

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including the symbolism of the
apocalypse.

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In Genesis you have the
Caribbean.

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You have them also in the
apocalypse.

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In Genesis you have the paradise
closed.

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In the apocalypse you have an
open.

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In Genesis you have a curse
imposed, in Apocalypse it’s and

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removed, and the whole of the
Apocalypse is there in a seed

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form in the book of Genesis.
Very remarkable and a very

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wonderful study as far as that
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And therefore, you see in that
Genesis you have all that you

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have in the rest of the Bible,
but it’s in its seed form.

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You know Abraham saw the day of
Armageddon, no doubt, in the

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14th chapter of Genesis.
Abraham saw in pipe the

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dispersion of his own people, no
doubt in the in the events that

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took place in relation to
Ishmael.

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Abraham foresaw the development
of the ecclesias in California

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and in Australia and all over
the world.

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No doubt when you consider in
depth the foreshadowing of the

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events that Isaac went through
and the life of Joseph gave the

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writer of Genesis, Moses, the
greatest detail in relation to

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
The book of Genesis opens with a

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statement that God made.
So all that he made the behold,

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it was very good.
The book of Genesis closes with

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a strange statement, a coffin in
Egypt.

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That are the four words by which
the book closes.

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Everything very good to commence
with a coffin in Egypt, Death in

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exile.
When you look in the coffin,

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there’s Joseph.
And when the Israelites are

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wandering through the
wilderness, they’re carrying the

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coffin of Joseph.
You can trace it through the

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Bible.
They’re bearing that heavy

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coffin as they go wearying
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When the spies went out and I
came back and I said the

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problems are too great for us.
Not that we’re afraid of

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ourselves, but our children.
Maryland says your children will

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reach the land, but you’ll die
in the wilderness.

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Now pick up the coffin.
And they carry that coffin on

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for 38 more years.
They celebrated the death of

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Joseph, writes for the
wilderness.

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And so the type flows on, You
see, even as we in the

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wilderness of life bear the
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Just take one more passage here
in Genesis chapter 2 and verse

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8.
And see how beautifully this is

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expressed in Scripture, because
you have here, that’s in the in

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Genesis 2 and verse 8, that
there was a garden planted

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eastward in Eden, and there he
put the man whom he had formed

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that in verse 7, That’s the
word.

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Verse 1 He formed man of the
dust of the ground and breathed

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into his nostrils the breath of
life, and man lived.

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So he formed man of the dust of
the ground, breathed into his

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nostrils the breath of life, and
man lived.

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When we go over to the New
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Timothy chapter 3 and verse 16,
Paul says that all scripture is

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given by inspiration of God, but
the word inspiration in the

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Greek is God breathed.
All scripture is God breathed.

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When we open that book and study
that book, there we have the

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breath of God entering into a
dust body and giving it a new

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life.
And that’s what you have

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foreshadowed in the Garden of
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It’s there and we can look as it
were in the Garden of Eden and

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we can see the body of of Adam
on the ground there, inanimate,

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just formed by God out of the.
Dust of the earth.

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But God wants not that.
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his own qualities in that dead
body.

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So he breathes into him the
breath of life, and he becomes a

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living soul.
When that book is breathed into

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us, God is breathing into us and
creating in us a living.

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Body that will.
Reflect to the glory of His holy

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name.
And so we have in this

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particular part the work of God
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But God wasn’t interested only
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He wanted the development of
Adam and that took place under

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the law that was given to Him in
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until of course, the time came
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Can we read in verse 18?
And that it was not good that a

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man should be alone.
I will make and help meet for

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him the letters in the margin of
your Bible.

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You’ll have an alternate
rendition to the word help meet

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you have instead of that the
Hebrew is as before him.

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The Hebrew word is at his face,
and the meaning of the Hebrew

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word is this the counterpart of
him.

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So God is going to make of him
one that will be his

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counterpart.
Who will be a?

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Reflection of himself, he’s
going to make one like that and

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this is going to be his bride.
This is going to be the the the

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marriage that is going to take
place out of that one that has

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got living because God breathed.
So he’s going to make one who is

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going to be his counterpart.
And of course none of the

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animals would fit into that
position.

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And so we read that in this
Bible, the 21st verse, that he

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took one of the ribs of Adam and
closed up the flesh thereof.

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You could take your analytical
concordance, look up that word

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rib.
Find where.

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Else it has.
Ever rendered rib?

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And you will find that there is
liver anywhere, meaning rib.

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It means side.
He took the side of Adam.

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He took one part of Adam, he
took the feminine qualities of

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that, and he built up from those
feminine qualities one that is

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going to be his bride.
That’s what Almighty God did

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then.
And with the bride, with the

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bridegroom, and with the fusion
of the both qualities, there

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became the perfect union of that
glorious marriage in Eden that

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anticipates a far more glorious
marriage when the second Adam

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returns and he sees the
counterpart of himself, and he

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takes her to himself, and they
become one.

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Because as Adam said, this is
burn of my bones and flesh of my

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flesh.
So the Lord Jesus Christ will be

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able to say to His multitude of
this bride, she is burn of my

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bone and flesh of my flesh.
And this is a unique marriage.

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Never has there been a marriage
like that in Eden until the

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glitter Adam returns and until
his bride is brought to him,

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because the bride of this Adam
was formed out of the side of

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Adam, and the Lord Jesus Christ
bride is formed out of his side

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as well.
And you see there we have the

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qualities of boats, and He wants
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When he returns, who is the
counterpart of himself and the

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purpose of our gathering at this
Bible school?

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Or any other meeting is that we
might learn of the qualities of

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Jesus Christ, that we might mold
our lives on those qualities so

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that the beauty that we see
there, we may reflect ourselves

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and we become the counterpart of
Him that has created us.

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It’s a beautiful picture that is
presented in this this marriage

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in Eden and when you come up to
the other parts of the word of

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God, you find how you this
marriage is this is now bone of

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my bones and flesh of my flesh.
She shall be called woman, Woman

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Isha, which means out of man.
And then it’s the title that

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will be given us in the age to
come, because we will be

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developed out of Christ, because
he was taken out of man.

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Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and shall

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cleave unto his wife, and they
shall be 1 flesh.

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And we go over now to the 45th
Psalm, and we see that bride and

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bridegroom, and we hear the
commendation of the bridegroom

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onto the bride in these perms in
Psalm 45 and verse 10.

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Hakuna daughter.
And consider and incline your

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ear.
That’s what we’ve got to do

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today, that we might learn of
Jesus Christ and build His life

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into our own lives.
We’ve got to first of all,

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hearken, ponder and meditate and
incline our ear to to study in

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depth these things.
Forget also thy own people and

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thy Father’s house.
He shall leave his father and

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his mother, and shall be joined
unto his wife, For he is thy

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Lord, and worship thou him.
And you can see how the Genesis

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chapter 2, verse 21 onwards,
she’s reflected in these words

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of the bride as she stands with
her bridegroom in the age to

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car.
Because in this 45th Psalm you

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have of course, the bride and
his consort, the king and his

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consort in the age to car.
We go over to the new.

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Testament And we see the
foreshadowing of the marriage of

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Genesis taken up further by the
apostle Paul, so that Paul in

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dealing with the very principles
of marriage launches into an

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exposition upon Genesis chapter
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He says in verses 25 and 27 of
Ephesians chapter 5, husbands,

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love your wives.
Even if Christ loved the

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ecclesia and gave himself for
it.

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Now there’s the measure of love
commended, a self sacrificing

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love, in which of course in the
case of Christ, and this is the

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ideal set before us.
There was a greater love for the

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bride than there was for life
itself, that He might sanctify

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and cleanse it with the washing
of the water by the Word, that

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He might present it to himself
with glorious ecclesia, not

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having spot or wrinkle or any
such thing, but it should be

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holy and without blemish.
Then he says in verse 30.

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For we are members of his body,
of his flesh, and of his bones.

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For this course shall a man
leave his father and his mother.

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The world outside.
But and shall be joined unto his

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wife.
Notice it doesn’t say, shall

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become his wife, does it?
But he shall be joined unto his

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wife.
So you see the.

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Wife is a multitude in this
wife, and they too shall be 1.

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Flesh.
This is a great secret, says

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Paul.
That I speak not of ordinary

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marriage.
I speak concerning Christ.

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And the Ecclesia, and then he.
Reverts to ordinary marriage.

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So you see he has taken this
picture that’s foreshadowing in

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the book of Genesis and he is
showing how that has an

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application to our call in
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Now in the 3rd chapter of
Genesis we read how that the the

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sin entered into the world and
we read concerning Genesis 315

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and the great promise that has
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And in verse 16 we are told
concerning the woman under the

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woman he said, I will greatly
multiply thy sorrow and thy

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conception in sorrow shall thou
bring forth.

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Children notice that it says in
sorrow, not in pain, but in

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sorrow.
And of course this has been

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brought about by the prevalence
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That’s going to cause a greater
sorrow now that sin and death

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has entered into the picture,
and the woman’s sorrow is going

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to be greater than the man’s, as
inevitably is the case under

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circumstances such as this.
A woman feels things much more

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than a man.
I am sure of that.

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I know my own relationships with
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I’d like to kill some of them
sometimes, but my wife always

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comes in and she relieves them
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So you see, there is, there is
the principle there.

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I will greatly multiply thy
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But what I want to draw your
attention to is the concluding

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part of that verse.
Thy desire shall be to thy

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husband and he shall rule over
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Now that word desire occurs
again in chapter 4 and verse 7,

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and we’re going to look at it in
the relationships of Cain and

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Abel.
So it’s not what we would

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normally call desire.
It is there in Genesis 4, verse

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7, in relationship to the Cain
and Abel and their relationship

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one with the others, and the
conclusion version of the Bible

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and others also render that
phrase as Thy restoration shall

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be subject to thy husband, and
he shall rule over thee, thy

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restoration shall be subject to
thy husband, and he shall rule

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over thee.
Who’s it?

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Talking.
About obviously the second Adam.

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It’s speaking to the antidypical
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It’s speaking to the bride of
Christ and her restoration to

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the state of that she originally
had when there was complete

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union with her and Adam and with
God in heaven, complete

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fellowship.
That restoration, which is a

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great, desirable thing, is
subject to the husband, in our

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case, Jesus Christ, and he shall
rule over thee.

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And that’s the only way that
we’re going to receive

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restoration in the age to come
and form a part of the

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multitudinous Christ, so long as
Jesus Christ rules over us.

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So long as we listen to the
words of Jesus Christ and

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recognize them as authoritative
and we implement those words in

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our lives, then we will attain
under the restoration that is to

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be found in the age to come when
of course the Lord Jesus Christ

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will be united to His bride.
You can imagine we reach that

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even now.
You remember how that the

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Apostle Paul says in Galatians
chapter 3, there is neither Jew

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nor Greek, there is neither bum
nor 33, there’s neither male nor

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female, but all the one in
Christ Jesus in a measure that

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is that what is we’re reaching
forward to?

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And remember what he said in his
prayer in John chapter 21 and

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verse 21 when he prayed that
they might be 1 as their father

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out of me and I am thee, that
they may be one on us.

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There is a glorious unity
established in those words of

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Jesus Christ and in those in
that prayer of Jesus Christ and

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in the words of the apostle
Paul, a glorious unity that only

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in a token way do we attain unto
at the present moment.

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Our restoration is subject unto
our husband, the apostle Paul in

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the first of Timothy chapter 2,
he takes this matter up also,

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and he speaks considering this
matter in Eden, and he shows how

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powerful is the foreshadowing
that is expressed there.

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Let the women learn in silence
with all subjection.

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I suffer not a woman to teach,
not to usurp authority over the

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man, but to be.
For Adam was first formed, and

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Eve, but Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was

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in the transgression.
Now here’s the point in verse

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3015.
Notwithstanding, he shall be

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saved in childbearing, if they
continue in faith and charity

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and holiness with sobriety.
Now in the Greek, the definite

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article is given before
childbearing.

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He shall be saved in the
childbearing.

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The childbearing is the seed of
the woman promised in Genesis

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315 and the she of this verse is
the anti typical Eve who is

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going to be saved through the
childbearing.

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And notice in that verse that in
the pronouns you’ll have both a

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singular and plural pronoun.
He shall be saved if they

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continue the she is the anti
typical Eve.

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He will be say without any
doubt, but whether we’re in that

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anti typical Eve is a matter of
doubt.

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And you see that they of that
particular verse relate to the

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individual members of the she.
They relate to the individual

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members of the of the bride of
Christ.

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They are the multitudinous
members of that one bride of

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Christ.
The bride will be saved through

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the childbearing that was
promised in Genesis 3, verse 15,

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and we will fall apart if we
continue in faith and charity

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and holiness with sobriety.
So you see the Apostle Paul

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here.
He is taking on, as it were, the

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foreshadowing in the Garden of
Eden, and he is applying it to

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our spiritual life in Christ
Jesus in the 5th.

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Chapter of Ephesians again in
verse 22 he says, wives, submit

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yourselves unto your own
husbands, as unto the Lord, and

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we are the.
Bride of Christ so that

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everything that is spoken
concerning women here we.

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Ought to apply.
As the bride of Christ,

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irrespective as to what our sex
might be, we should.

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See Christ as a solidarity, one
who to whom we should submit.

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And we should build into our
lives the principles that apply.

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And then if we do that, we will
experience that wonderful, that

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wonderful expression of praise
that is found in the 31st of

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Proverbs where the virtuous
woman is, is outlined.

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And we read up.
We read in verse 28 of that 31st

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of Proverbs.
Her husband also praises her.

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And our husband will praise us.
If we are among that virtuous

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woman.
Then many daughters have done

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virtuously.
But Thou excel us them all.

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Favour is deceitful, and beauty
is mine.

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But a woman that fareth Yahweh,
she shall be praised.

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Give her the fruit of her hands,
and let her own works praise her

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in the gates.
So you see, that will be the

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commendation that we will be
bestowed upon the multitude, and

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as Christ in the age to come, so
there we have a hope.

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In that chapter in Genesis,
Genesis 3, we have a hope and we

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have the means whereby the woman
can attain unto the original

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state of the unity that she had
enjoyed with Adam and with God.

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And now in that same book, in
this third of Genesis, we have

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the response of Adam.
Adam is told in verse 19 that

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dust thou art, and unto dust
thou shall return.

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And now comes a very strange
part of this chapter, because

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immediately on top of that,
notice this in verse 20 we read

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Adam called his wife’s name Eve,
because she is the mother of all

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living.
Now first of all, God says, or

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the Angel says to Adam, thus
thou art, and unto thus shalt

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thou return.
Adam responds to the to the

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Angel.
Look, my wife’s name is Eve.

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She’s the mother of all living,
in other words.

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What?
Adam is saying it’s not Adam

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00:32:00,400 –> 00:32:04,280
joint in that verse.
It’s a natural reaction from

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what has been stated.
Adam is told dust thou art, and

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unto dust thou our return.
But now he’s better change his

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00:32:11,440 –> 00:32:16,120
wife’s name.
To Eve and Eve, men’s lights and

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00:32:16,120 –> 00:32:18,800
Adam’s response to the statement
that he’s getting dies.

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But what about the covenant, the
promise you’ve given to my wife?

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I’m going to call her Eve.
She’s the mother of all living.

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And therefore, though I am, I am
given over to death.

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There is lice there.
We can attain unto life through

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the seed of the woman that’s
been promised.

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So he calls.
Her name Eve, which is from the

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00:32:37,920 –> 00:32:40,920
Hebrew word cow, which means of
course, lice.

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Because he says she is the
mother of all living.

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So that what Adam is saying is,
though we are subject to death,

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there is this great hope of
life.

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And then God shows Adam what
he’s got to do if he wants to

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00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:57,040
attain into that life.
And to Adam also to his wife.

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Did the Lord God make coats of
skins and clothe them?

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00:33:00,040 –> 00:33:04,160
He took an animal and we have
the first death now He took that

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00:33:04,160 –> 00:33:06,280
animal, He shed the blood of
that animal.

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00:33:06,400 –> 00:33:10,000
He took the the skins of the
animal and he clothed them with

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00:33:10,000 –> 00:33:13,560
the skins and he clothed never
believe in the Garden of Eden.

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With those skins.
And he emphasized at that point

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00:33:16,760 –> 00:33:22,040
what is necessary for life, what
is absolutely necessary for

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00:33:22,040 –> 00:33:25,240
life.
And Adam looked upon death now,

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00:33:25,240 –> 00:33:28,840
and he saw it in that animal.
He saw the blood of that animal

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shed that he might have a
covering.

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And he was taught the principles
of sacrifice, that a life must

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be given unto God.
If of course, we want to attain

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00:33:41,080 –> 00:33:45,120
unto life in the Kingdom of God,
and therefore, you see, as far

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00:33:45,120 –> 00:33:49,400
as the animal was concerned, it
thought it was representative of

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00:33:49,480 –> 00:33:53,360
Adam that if he wanted to attain
unto the life through the

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00:33:53,360 –> 00:33:57,640
covenant made with his mice,
then he must offer his life.

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00:33:57,680 –> 00:34:01,280
As a sacrifice.
That his life must be given in

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00:34:01,280 –> 00:34:04,880
that way.
For blood is the symbol of life.

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00:34:05,520 –> 00:34:07,840
The life of the flesh is in the
birth.

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And God says, I have given it on
the altar for you.

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00:34:12,120 –> 00:34:14,239
Life of the flesh is in the
blood.

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When we meet around the table of
the Lord, and we take the wine

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and we drink that wine, we say
that this represents Christ’s

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00:34:21,280 –> 00:34:23,800
blood.
But by blood we ought to mean

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life.
Because that is what it

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00:34:25,960 –> 00:34:29,320
signifies.
And blood that is poured out

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00:34:29,560 –> 00:34:34,560
under God is a life devoted
blood that was put upon an altar

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00:34:34,920 –> 00:34:38,920
is a life that’s given to God
where we take that glass of wine

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00:34:38,920 –> 00:34:42,239
in our hands to drink.
That here are the life giveth to

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00:34:42,239 –> 00:34:44,440
God.
And it’s given to God by the

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00:34:44,440 –> 00:34:47,760
denial of flesh.
It’s only when flesh is put to

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00:34:47,760 –> 00:34:51,040
death modify the deeds of the
body, says Paul.

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00:34:51,239 –> 00:34:54,120
Put it to.
Death, and render unto God the

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00:34:54,120 –> 00:34:55,639
life that you’re going to give
him.

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The same as when they took that
animal, and they slew that

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00:34:58,720 –> 00:35:01,800
animal, and they saw their
blood, and they put the blood by

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00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:05,720
the altar, or Plumb the altar,
and that life of that animal was

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00:35:05,720 –> 00:35:09,160
now given unto God, and the
worshipper that was worshipping

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before his God identified
himself with that animal.

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Otherwise it was useless.
God says I don’t want just

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00:35:16,360 –> 00:35:18,480
sacrifices, take them and eat
them yourself.

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00:35:18,600 –> 00:35:22,720
But God didn’t want their
sacrifices, He commanded.

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00:35:22,720 –> 00:35:25,560
Them.
But he wanted them in the right

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00:35:25,560 –> 00:35:27,960
way.
He wanted the worshipper to

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00:35:27,960 –> 00:35:30,440
identify himself with that
offering.

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Now the worshipper got that
animal.

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00:35:32,840 –> 00:35:36,000
He.
Held the the the head back and

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00:35:36,000 –> 00:35:37,640
he cut the throat of that
animal.

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You can imagine what would
happen.

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The death readings of that
animal as the blood poured out,

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00:35:43,800 –> 00:35:47,560
the agony of that animal.
And that was teaching the

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00:35:47,560 –> 00:35:51,880
worshipper that he’s got to
agonize in order that he might

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00:35:51,880 –> 00:35:56,120
reach a way of life that is
satisfactory to Almighty God.

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And so Adam and Eve were clothed
with these garments that was

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placed upon them, and sacrifice
was established.

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And we have in the last verse of
that chapter, where you have the

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Caribbean at the east of the
garden with a flaming sword to

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00:36:14,800 –> 00:36:16,760
keep the way of the tree of
life.

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00:36:17,720 –> 00:36:21,280
The words have been rendered and
can be rendered at the east of

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the Garden of Eden.
He caused to dwell in a.

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00:36:24,120 –> 00:36:25,680
Tabernacle.
The.

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00:36:25,680 –> 00:36:30,600
Carabin, even the flaming sword,
and the sword was there.

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00:36:31,080 –> 00:36:35,400
It was a flaming sword, because
the sword was there to kill and

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00:36:35,400 –> 00:36:39,680
the fire was there to consume.
And a person brought an offering

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00:36:39,680 –> 00:36:44,720
to that place east of Eden, and
the offering was slain, and the

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00:36:44,720 –> 00:36:49,160
offering was consumed by fire,
and it became a bird offering

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00:36:49,160 –> 00:36:52,160
unto God.
One of the great principles

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00:36:52,160 –> 00:36:54,720
brought out in the book of.
Leviticus, where you have the

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00:36:54,720 –> 00:36:58,000
bird.
Offerings in detail expressed A

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00:36:58,000 –> 00:37:01,520
person that’s going to offer a
bird offering went to the herd.

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00:37:01,720 –> 00:37:04,280
He overlooked his herd.
He took the.

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00:37:04,400 –> 00:37:08,800
Animal that he didn’t want to
give up the animal that he

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00:37:08,800 –> 00:37:12,160
wanted to keep the best animal
of that third.

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He took that animal away.
He took it to the Tabernacle.

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00:37:15,720 –> 00:37:18,640
He slew that animal.
He dismembered that animal.

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00:37:18,760 –> 00:37:20,640
He inspected every part of it.
He.

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00:37:20,640 –> 00:37:23,880
Washed it inside and outside.
That he got the pieces, that he

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00:37:23,880 –> 00:37:27,480
put those pieces upon the altar
and placed them in such an order

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00:37:27,480 –> 00:37:31,120
upon the altar that the fire
might go through it very easily.

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00:37:31,320 –> 00:37:35,200
That fire was no ordinary fire.
That fire was not made with

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00:37:35,200 –> 00:37:36,280
matches.
It was a.

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00:37:36,320 –> 00:37:40,200
Divine fire that came down from
heaven, and it consumed the

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00:37:40,240 –> 00:37:44,400
offering upon the altar.
And of course, that fire

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00:37:44,400 –> 00:37:49,640
consuming that offering upon the
altar, friends, transpose that

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00:37:49,640 –> 00:37:53,480
flesh into something that
ascended unto God as a sweet

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00:37:53,480 –> 00:37:55,960
smelling savour.
So that through the means of

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00:37:55,960 –> 00:38:00,560
that sacrifice, flesh itself
ascended unto God, as it were,

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00:38:00,800 –> 00:38:04,200
with a sweet smelling savour,
because it was consumed by the

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00:38:04,200 –> 00:38:06,600
fire.
And that fire was the fire of

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00:38:06,600 –> 00:38:09,280
that word.
And the apostle Paul in writing

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00:38:09,280 –> 00:38:13,440
to the Thessalonians, he says
French, not the Spirit.

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00:38:13,960 –> 00:38:17,320
So you see, they had to wash
carefully, clean everything and

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00:38:17,360 –> 00:38:19,160
allow that fire to go through
it.

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When we meet around the table of
our Lord, we are virtually

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00:38:26,280 –> 00:38:29,600
telling our God we’re prepared
to offer ourselves a like

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00:38:29,600 –> 00:38:31,920
manner.
And of course.

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00:38:33,480 –> 00:38:35,560
It’s.
To the extent that the fire,

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00:38:35,560 –> 00:38:39,400
that word will consume us.
But we ourselves will become a

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00:38:39,600 –> 00:38:42,040
burnt offering acceptable unto
God.

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00:38:42,600 –> 00:38:45,640
Now that was taught in Eden.
And you see these things were

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00:38:45,640 –> 00:38:49,040
the principles of religion that
was being set before the people.

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00:38:49,040 –> 00:38:52,240
The the people out of believe in
the Eden and of course the

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00:38:52,240 –> 00:38:55,320
descendants of Adam and Eve, the
immediate family they were

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00:38:55,320 –> 00:38:59,680
taught the principles of divine
worship and then introduce this

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00:38:59,680 –> 00:39:01,880
to us.
The circumstances of Genesis

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00:39:01,880 –> 00:39:05,880
chapter 4 that takes us to the
time when there was foreshadowed

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00:39:06,160 –> 00:39:11,040
in the Garden of Eden, the first
advent of the Lord and we’re

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00:39:11,040 –> 00:39:13,640
going to see how the Christ
himself took hold of what took

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00:39:13,640 –> 00:39:16,120
place there and applied it to
his own day.

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00:39:17,240 –> 00:39:20,120
Now we read in that early verses
of the Genesis chapter 4

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concerning pain and Abel, and
here we have two sons of Adam

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00:39:24,920 –> 00:39:29,800
and Eve, two sons of Eve, but
one represents the seat of the

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woman and the other represents
the seed of the serpent.

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They were two anti typical
seeds.

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And of course, when you come
over to the second of

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00:39:38,720 –> 00:39:42,920
Corinthians Chapter 11, you find
the time is also represented by

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00:39:42,920 –> 00:39:46,400
the apostle Paul.
He says, Would to God you would

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00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:50,240
bear with me a little in my
folly, and indeed bear with me,

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00:39:50,840 –> 00:39:53,360
for I am jealous over you with
godly jealousy.

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00:39:53,720 –> 00:39:56,680
For I have espoused you to one
husband, that I may prevent you

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00:39:56,680 –> 00:40:00,920
as a chaste virgin unto Christ.
But I see you, lest by any

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00:40:00,920 –> 00:40:04,640
means, as the serpent beguiled
Eve through his subtlety, so

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00:40:04,640 –> 00:40:07,920
your mind should be corrupted
from the simplicity in Christ.

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00:40:08,200 –> 00:40:11,240
For if there come another
preaching, another Jesus, then

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00:40:11,240 –> 00:40:14,640
we have not preached on.
Receive another spirit which we

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00:40:14,640 –> 00:40:17,520
have not received, or another
gospel which we have not

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00:40:17,520 –> 00:40:19,480
accepted.
You might wear thou well with

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00:40:19,480 –> 00:40:21,240
him.
Now you see what the Apostle

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00:40:21,240 –> 00:40:24,240
Paul is saying.
Is here we have the antitypical

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00:40:24,240 –> 00:40:28,600
Eve and the Ecclesia, but that
antitypical Eve, like even Eden

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00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:31,720
is.
Capable of producing a seed of

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00:40:31,720 –> 00:40:34,720
the woman or a seed of the
serpent.

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00:40:35,600 –> 00:40:38,160
And that’s what happened here.
And right down through the

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00:40:38,160 –> 00:40:42,440
centuries, within the same
community, you have these two

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00:40:42,440 –> 00:40:44,520
types of people.
You had them in the.

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00:40:44,520 –> 00:40:47,160
Ecclesias of Asia, you’ve had it
ever since.

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00:40:47,240 –> 00:40:50,600
The danger is always present.
We’ve got to exercise extreme

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00:40:50,600 –> 00:40:52,560
vigilance.
We’ve got to be extremely

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00:40:52,560 –> 00:40:56,840
careful and notice this fact
that of these two sons of Adam.

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00:40:56,960 –> 00:40:59,560
Here.
They were both very religious.

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00:41:00,120 –> 00:41:03,160
They both wanted to worship God.
They were both prepared to

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00:41:03,160 –> 00:41:06,320
sacrifice.
But that simply is not enough.

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00:41:06,680 –> 00:41:10,560
It’s not enough to be religious.
It’s it’s, it’s, it’s not enough

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00:41:10,560 –> 00:41:13,800
to want to sacrifice.
It’s not enough to want to

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00:41:13,800 –> 00:41:16,560
worship God.
There were ways and forms in

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00:41:16,560 –> 00:41:19,680
which this must be done.
And if we don’t conform to those

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ways and forms, we’re going to
find ourselves in the position

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that Crane found himself when he
brought his offerings before his

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God.
So you see in this 4th chapter

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we read concerning these two
boys that one was a keeper of

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the sheep and train was a tiller
of the ground.

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Nothing wrong with tillers of
the ground with

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agriculturalists.
They are people that are

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dependent upon the mercy of God.
But in the relationship between

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and Abel, that description is
very effective.

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Because you see, the tiller of
the ground has got his eyes upon

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the earth.
He’s got his eyes looking at

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that earth all the time.
Not so the shepherd.

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The shepherd’s eyes is out on
the horizon looking for cast

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your land for the sheep that
he’s leading.

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He learns the principles of
shepherding, and he learns the

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dependence of the sheep upon
him.

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And his eyes are always to the
fore.

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Looking.
For something ahead that

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characterized those two boys,
Kate and Abel, One was looking

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00:42:24,000 –> 00:42:28,240
for immediate results, The other
had his eyes upon the the

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horizon.
And so you see, do we have in

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the case of Cain and Abel, a
keeper of the sheep, Cain or

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tiller of the ground in process
of time it came to pass the the

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expression process of time
implies a set time.

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So there was a set time when
they would make their offerings,

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and Cain brought up the fruit of
the ground and.

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Offering unto Yahweh.
Now that’s quite good.

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He wanted a sacrifice, you see.
He brought on the fruit of the

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ground a sacrifice unto Yahweh.
It was the labor of His hands.

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He’d worked hard at that, and
now he wanted to show the labor

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of his hands in a sacrifice to
his God.

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Nothing wrong with that, but it
stopped there.

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He would, by his own means,
bring that which is acceptable

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unto God.
We just simply can’t do that.

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We’re absolutely dependent upon
the motivation of Christ.

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00:43:27,160 –> 00:43:31,440
We depended upon Christ in life.
And it’s not enough for what I

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do to gain for me the
approbation of Almighty God.

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00:43:36,400 –> 00:43:39,200
I might say that.
I might say, well look at Lord,

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what I have done.
You know, the Lord himself said

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00:43:42,400 –> 00:43:46,000
many shall say on that day,
look, we’ve done this and we’ve

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00:43:46,000 –> 00:43:47,560
done that.
We’ve preached here, we’ve

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00:43:47,560 –> 00:43:51,880
preached there and Christ will
say I never knew you, I never

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00:43:51,880 –> 00:43:53,600
knew you.
And then we’ve been preaching

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00:43:53,600 –> 00:43:55,760
about you in the streets.
We’ve done this for you.

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We’ve travelled here, we’ve
travelled there.

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00:43:57,640 –> 00:44:01,520
I never knew you.
It’s the labour of our hands.

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00:44:01,520 –> 00:44:04,760
We’re going to do it ourselves.
We never will do it ourselves.

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And that was the first lesson
that was impressed upon the the

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Cain and Abel in this time.
Not that there’s anything wrong

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00:44:13,720 –> 00:44:18,320
with the labour of our hands if
it’s done in the right way.

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And notice now in verse four
that Abel he also brought.

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Now that word also means.
In addition, Abel in addition

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brought.
He brought the labour of his

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hands.
But in addition, he brought

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something that God had given
him, which was the first leaves

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of his flock and the fat bail of
the fullness of it all.

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So it wasn’t that there were two
different sacrifices.

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Cain brought of the fruit of the
ground, and so did Abel.

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But in addition, Abel brought
that animal and he offered that

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animal to God.
Cain gave of his labour, so did

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00:45:11,960 –> 00:45:18,120
Abel, but in addition.
Abel gave his life, and that

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00:45:18,120 –> 00:45:22,680
life was tokened in the animal,
and that animal was the best

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animal of his flock, the
firstlings of his flock.

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That animal was presented with a
fat thereof, the fullness of

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00:45:29,680 –> 00:45:36,680
energy there, and Abel gave all
that as far as the offering, his

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00:45:36,680 –> 00:45:41,080
offering was concerned.
He gave all that, that he might

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render a a proper sacrifice unto
God.

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Now over in Hebrews Chapter 11
and verse 4 we are told.

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How he did.
That because Paul in that

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00:45:54,240 –> 00:45:57,520
particular place, he says this
by faith.

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Abel offered unto God a more
excellent sacrifice.

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He did it by faith.
And what is faith?

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00:46:04,760 –> 00:46:09,160
Well, faith is the evidence of
things not seen.

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00:46:09,960 –> 00:46:13,560
Faith is a confident
anticipation of things hoped

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00:46:13,560 –> 00:46:15,880
for.
Is the way by the Thomas renders

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00:46:15,880 –> 00:46:20,000
verse one a confident
anticipation of things hoped

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00:46:20,000 –> 00:46:24,040
for.
That is what motivated Abel, a

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00:46:24,040 –> 00:46:27,000
confident anticipation of things
hoped for.

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By his confident anticipation of
things hoped for, Abel offered

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00:46:32,760 –> 00:46:35,440
under God a more excellent
sacrifice.

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Abel wanted something more than
life could give today.

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Cain brought the first the
ground what is came immediately

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00:46:46,520 –> 00:46:50,360
to his hands.
I will soar beyond all that to

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that which God had promised him,
and that was faith that

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00:46:53,960 –> 00:46:57,640
motivated that man.
So his eyes were on the distant

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horizon even as they were when
he was looking for pastor for

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00:47:01,120 –> 00:47:03,680
his sheep.
And that is the faith, brethren

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and sisters, that should
motivate us at all times.

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00:47:06,640 –> 00:47:10,080
A couple of anticipation of
things hopeful, a full

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00:47:10,080 –> 00:47:13,720
persuasion of things not see,
and not merely a knowledge of it

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00:47:13,760 –> 00:47:17,360
all, but a conviction of it all.
A conviction that will drive us

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00:47:17,360 –> 00:47:19,800
on to accomplish what God wants
on us.

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00:47:19,960 –> 00:47:22,560
He respected as to the
circumstances of life.

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00:47:22,680 –> 00:47:25,840
So we defy the world and all
that it stands for, because we

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know that we can look beyond
these things to the glory that’s

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00:47:29,240 –> 00:47:33,360
going to flood this earth when
the Lord Jesus Christ returns.

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00:47:33,680 –> 00:47:37,360
By faith Abel off and unto God.
A more excellent sacrifice than

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Cain, by which he obtained
witness that he was righteous.

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00:47:41,520 –> 00:47:50,320
God testifying of his gifts, and
by it he be dead yet speaketh.

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We’re going to say that the
voice of Cain, Abel cried out

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00:48:00,160 –> 00:48:08,680
from the ground and he be dead
spake, and God moved on his

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00:48:08,680 –> 00:48:13,280
behalf.
And in the 12th chapter of the

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00:48:13,800 –> 00:48:19,000
Hebrews, the apostle goes on to
say concerning Jesus, the

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00:48:19,000 –> 00:48:23,040
mediator of a new covenant, he
speaks of the blood of

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00:48:23,040 –> 00:48:28,520
sprinkling that speaketh better
things than that of Abel.

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00:48:29,760 –> 00:48:35,320
Because you see, the blood of
Abel cried out for vengeance,

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that the blood of Jesus Christ
gives forgiveness.

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00:48:41,160 –> 00:48:46,360
And so as the blood of Abel was
effective in that God moved on

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his behalf.
In the case of Jesus Christ, it

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extends to a greater degree.
It brings forgiveness to us and

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00:48:54,840 –> 00:48:58,080
therefore speak of greater
things than those of Abel.

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We plan, God willing, to trace
this further on our next session

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tomorrow.